
On June 22, 1983, 15-year-old Emanuela Orlandi, disappeared inside the Vatican compound. Emanuela was last seen getting into a large, dark-colored BMW with blacked-out windows.
In Vatican City, there is an archive containing more than 75,000 codices from throughout history and an estimated 1.1 million ancient printed books. If you are a researcher, and can sufficiently document your need for access, the collection is open for limited periods of time – except for a section of the library known officially…
Noted Dutch artist Aert de Gelder was one of Rembrandt’s most talented students. Studying in his Amsterdam studio from 1661 through 1663, Gelder was a devoted Rembrandt follower which likely provided him unfettered access to the Vatican’s censored and secret artworks and literature. It is believed by many that Gelder may have cleverly revealed this…
ABC News reported that newly released U.S. diplomatic cables indicate that Ireland caved in to Vatican pressure to grant immunity to church officials in the government probe of decades of sex abuse by Irish clergy in the predominantly Catholic nation. That the Holy See used its diplomatic immunity status as a tiny-city state to try…